Friday Prayer

A Walking Playlist

Each Friday, the folks at Preachy will offer you something of a reflection for your weekend. This Friday, Judith Joseph — author of this Monday’s Preachy post — offers a playlist to go along with her piece, and maybe one of your walks.

Gausanchennai, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Plant of the Month: March, 2021

Each Friday, the folks at Preachy will offer you something of a reflection for your weekend. This Friday, we present Plant of the Month in which we invite you to sample Planet Earth’s finest. This month it’s the tomato. Yes, they’re a picky plant. Do you ever actually know how much water they need? Absolutely […]

Art by Jason Katzenstein

Opaque Strategy Number Four

Each Friday, the folks at Preachy will offer you something of a reflection for your weekend. This Friday, we present our re-casting of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies cards. We call our version Opaque Strategies. Here is Opaque Strategy number four: Eat some dirt. If it’s good enough for yr plants, it’s good […]

L. Esposito (University of Colorado, Boulder), and NASA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Space Object of March, 2021

Each Friday, the folks at Preachy will offer you something of a reflection for your weekend. This Friday, we present our first Space Object of the Month, in which a Preachy co-editor invites you to learn how to use his telescope (with him): Items I will try to find: Venus Why?: ‘Cause it will be […]

Lairich Rig / Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria)

Plant of the Month: February, 2021

Each Friday, the folks at Preachy will offer you something of a reflection for your weekend. This Friday, we present Plant of the Month in which we invite you to sample Planet Earth’s finest. This month it’s meadowsweet. Meadowsweet belongs to the rose family. It’s an anti-inflammatory—the formula for aspirin was synthesized using meadowsweet. It’s […]

In the Year of Our Lord Playlist

Each Friday, the folks at Preachy will offer you something of a reflection for your weekend. This Friday, J.S.E Saheb — author of this Monday’s Preachy post — offers a playlist to go along with his piece.

Art by Jason Katzenstein

Opaque Strategy Number Three

Each Friday, the folks at Preachy will offer you something of a reflection for your weekend. This Friday, we present our re-casting of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies cards. We call our version Opaque Strategies. Here is Opaque Strategy number three: Sit with yr own stink. The longer you sit. The harder it […]

NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Space Object of February, 2021

Each Friday, the folks at Preachy will offer you something of a reflection for your weekend. This Friday, we present our first Space Object of the Month, in which a Preachy co-editor invites you to learn how to use his telescope (with him): Items I will try to find: M81 (Bode’s Galaxy) Why?: ‘Cause it […]

A Gospel Playlist

Each Friday, the folks at Preachy will offer you something of a reflection for your weekend. This Friday, Robin Storey Dunn — author of this week’s Monday thought — offers a playlist to accompany her piece.

A Scorsese playlist

Each Friday, the folks at Preachy will offer you something of a reflection for your weekend. This Friday, Alejandra Martinez — author of this week’s Monday thought on Martin Scorsese and Catholicism — offers a playlist to accompany her piece.